[plt-scheme] Updating PLaneT distributed tools: any conflicts?

From: Robby Findler (robby.findler at gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 29 15:18:42 EST 2007

The most recent version of a planet package that is already installed, right?

Robby

On 1/29/07, Jacob Matthews <jacobm at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> DrScheme always chooses only the most recent version of a PLaneT package by
> default when looking for tools to run at startup.
>
> (Sorry I missed this message until now!)
>
> -jacob
>
>
>  On 1/22/07, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm planning to make a point release of DivaScheme to push another few bug
> > fixes we've made recently.  (As well as a feature to cooperate with
> > DrScheme's automatic open-paren fixup thing.  Hurrah!)
> >
> > One thing I was wondering, though: how does DrScheme choose which version
> > of a PLaneT-distributed tool to load?
> >
> > Assuming that there are several versions of that tool already installed in
> > the local cache, does DrScheme always go for the highest version for each
> > tool, or does it instead choose the one most-recently configured by
> > setup-plt?
> >
> > I'm concerned that for people who already have DivaScheme (PLaneT package
> > 1.0) release installed, the presence of that old version might interfere
> > with any new releases.  Regardless, it should be easy to address:  I can
> > just write a quick uninstaller program that tells PLaneT to wipe older
> > versions of DivaScheme.  Still, I'm curious what the official policy of
> > this is.
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
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